From: Dave Thomas <dave@...>
Date: 2004-08-03T08:48:19+09:00
Subject: Re: who develops ri?


On Aug 2, 2004, at 17:56, Kristof Bastiaensen wrote:

> I would like to know who maintains currently ri
> (the version that comes with Ruby).

Me!
>
> I have written an interface for ri from emacs.
> To be able to do completion of methods and classes,
> I wrote a script in Ruby.  The problem is that it
> is very dependend on the implementation of ri, and
> there doesn't seem to be a consistent interface.
> For example on windows the script breaks because some
> classes are defined only in the ri-executable script,
> (not in the libraries).

I have no idea what's being distributed in the Window's version, but 
there _should_ be just one version of ri, the one in the Ruby source 
tree.



Cheers

Dave